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City Racing is a recipe for disaster - it's time to put an end to it

The rural location of the City Racing trials gallop in Newmarket
The rural location of the City Racing trials gallop in NewmarketCredit: JSComms

If a more ill-advised concept than City Racing exists in our industry right now, it’s hard to think of it.

Quite how this flight of fancy is still being talked about and worked on as some sort of credible objective is a triumph of gargantuan proportions for good old-fashioned groundless optimism. This isn't so much someone's brainchild as a brainfart.

It’s not my intention to offend or trivialise, and in this column every week I strive to maintain some semblance of balance and reason. On this, though, there is barely an iota of merit. It is deeply misguided pie in the sky that has been in gestation for around three years now, or maybe it would be more appropriate to say it has been on life support.

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